Thursday

May 25, 2017

We safely made it to Cape May, New Jersey!  Left Bohemia Bay Yacht Harbour on May 21 and headed down the Chesapeake/Delaware Canal to Delaware City Marina.  From there we staged our ride down Delaware Bay.  The Marina owner held a talk each evening at 5:00pm to let us know if we could leave.  We were lucky to only spend two nights at Delaware City Marina.  Many loopers in the weeks before us had to spend quite a few more nights there before taking off for Cape May.  The Delaware has a reputation for straining the nerves.

We are currently at Canyon Club Resort Marina in Cape May, New Jersey.  We will be holding up here until Saturday, hopefully.  Then taking the Atlantic coast up to Atlantic city and beyond to New York Harbor.  The intercostal is too shallow to risk, unless we were stranded and desperate.




The restaurants in Delaware City, Delaware are very unique to say the least.  We ate the first night at Crabby Dick's.  The marina gave us coupons for two free Crabby Balls with a shot of Seaman Sauce. 😁
We have the menu to prove it.

Above is a picture of one of the Crabby Dick t-shirts.  This one we took a picture of, because they didn't have the right size for Walt.

This was taken before we ate.  All loopers here.

Mike took this picture.  Don't know why.

This is a picture of the table we ate at.

You can see the table better in this picture.

Another wall at Crabby Dick's

Crabby Dick's ladies room.

Another restaurant we visited in Delaware City was Lewinsky's on Clinton St  (get it?).  There were pictures of Bill Clinton there.  We were told it was a Polish restaurant, but only saw German food on the menu...

We had a decent ride down the Delaware Bay.  Here is the nuclear power plant we passed.  Had to stay beyond the yellow buoys or a military boat would give us trouble.  

We were told there would be massive freighter/barge traffic.  This is the only one we passed, that was moving.

This is a working lighthouse on the Delaware Bay.  A bell was constantly ringing.

When we finally made it to Cape May, NJ it was cold, rainy and windy.

When the sun came out it warmed up for a few.  Above is the fudge shop we bought salt water taffy there.

We also bought very good custard at Kohr Brothers.  Ben & Jerry's and DQ were also down the street, in this little town.

Below are a few of the restaurants in Cape May.  All on the same street. 

We also took a trolley ride around town, looking at the Cape May historic district.  The town claims to be America's first seaside resort and has numerous buildings in the late Victorian style.  

George Allen House-1863

J.R. Evans House - 1882

Chalfonte Hotel - 1875

To maintain the historic district, all new homes must be built to compliment the older historic homes. One can't just build a home in Cape May.  Even out of the historic district one must get permission to put up a fence and it better be the right kind.

This is the Emlen Physick Estate.  It is said that Dr. Emlen Physick Jr. would inherit the entire estate of his parents if he would go to medical school.  He did, but never practiced a day of his life.  The Physick's, a well-known Philadelphia family owned most of Cape May at that time.

After our trolley tour, the guys found this neat car.  They believe it is for a handicapped person.

Last night, Wednesday, we went out to the Lobster House Restaurant.  

We have been waiting for someone to try the soft shell crab.  Elke tried it at the Lobster House.  She only ate half and Mike tried it...  It looked like something from the movie Alien where it leaped up and sucked onto your face laying eggs inside of you...   Not impressed...

Mike got a little goofy.  He actually looks good with his hat on upside down...

After eating we went to a marina near by and visited with some more loopers.  This boat, as it looks is very large.  There were four couples eating there before our group of 6 even arrived.

Here's a video of our group on Herb's boat having a good time.... Herb is the white haired gentleman that's standing up...He went to leave a couple days ago, dropped his iPad Pro onto the floor which took his eye's off of what he was doing out in the channel and hit big Red-16 ATON(Aids TO Navigation) and smashed the crap out of the support on the starboard stern quarter of his boat that supports the aft cabin roof... he shook it off...